
Favorite Olin Hall/ChemE memory:
Hanging out with my senior product design group every week. I am thankful for groupmates who are friends outside of Olin Hall, too.
We are grateful to our alumni and friends for their generous support of the Smith School and its programs. Your continued generosity allows us to to sustain and enhance the quality of the school's programs and its reputation for educating engineers at the top of the field. Please review the list of giving opportunities below and consider a gift that will help the school accomplish one of the following objectives. You can also GIVE NOW using our secure website.
The Smith School has outgrown Olin Hall, but we have plans to grow from the inside, our venerable home to accommodate our programs into the future. Olin has been prioritized in the College of Engineering’s Facilities Master Plan for a full renovation. This prioritization recognizes the exceptional growth that has occurred in the school, in teaching and research, over the past decade. To accommodate our current and future programs, the plan aims to liberate significant new space within Olin Hall – with a recovery of all the space occupied by College services – to accommodate state-of-the-art laboratories and teaching and common spaces. This re-envisioning and reinvigorating of Olin for its next 75 years brings exciting opportunities and funding priorities:
Attracting talented graduate students to the school is a key goal in our pursuit of excellence in research. Your gift will allow the school to meet its goal of providing competitive graduate fellowships to every first year graduate student enrolled in the chemical engineering program.
The goal of CBE’s teaching immersion fellowships is to facilitate the development of doctoral students committed to careers in academia. Gifts in support of these fellowships will be used to fund graduate students who serve as TAs in multiple courses.
The school’s Masters of Engineering programs have never been larger or more vibrant than they are today. Students enroll from around the world to take on courses and projects within our four specializations: Computational Informatics, Energy Economics and Engineering, Medical and Industrial Biotechnology, and Product Design. This endowment will allow the school to provide these opportunities to talented young engineers who might otherwise not be able to afford the program.
Field experiences and international programs provide some of the richest possible training for students of the school. A summer experience at Imperial College London’s carbon capture pilot plant and a week-long training in off-shore operations at a Shell facility have been made financially viable for cohorts of students over these past several years by generous gifts from alumni. We hope to continue these programs and expand opportunities in the coming years, in particular with visits to and engagement with companies in our region.
Unrestricted gifts of any amount may be directed to CBE and will provide the director the flexibility to support the priorities listed above, aggressively recruit and retain junior faculty, seize other opportunities and address challenges at their discretion.
Favorite Olin Hall/ChemE memory:
Hanging out with my senior product design group every week. I am thankful for groupmates who are friends outside of Olin Hall, too.
For more information on these or any other giving opportunities, please contact Stephen Smith, CBE’s Alumni Affairs and Development Officer, at 607-255-8285 or sjs422@cornell.edu.